Artist: Shakira
Album: Laundry Service
Song Title: Underneath Your Clothes
I don’t quite grasp what the lyrical intent of the “underneath your clothes” reference in the refrain portion of the song. Is it the inspired essence of sexual, spiritual, intellectual nakedness… clumsy wordsmithing or what?
It was inspired by that idiot she has as a boyfriend. Result don’t try to find any meaning in that song.
I’ve always thought it was a rather brutish attempt at a double entendre. I took it to be a song about intimacy and what you learn about a person – the ‘endless story’ that’s there once you get to know someone. The second meaning would be the one that makes adolescent girls giggle when they hear ‘underneath your clothes.’
But that’s just my opinion, and I could be wrong.
Anybody a native Spanish speaker, or better yet, Colombian, and therefore able to shed light on any theory that this may be a bad English translation/transliteration of some Spanish/Colombian idiom?
Seems simple enough to me: clothes = outward appearances.
Isn’t she dating some guy whose father was a former dictator or something like that?
That song sucks! Totally insipid crap. “Being such a good girl?!?!?!” She really needs to get a clue or two and grow up.
Sorry, but I am just so sick of having to hear crap like this in public places. If it was up to me, only good stuff (Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, etc.) would be played within my hearing range.
Guinistasia–I think you’re correct on that. But this isn’t the first time Shakira’s lyrics have caused confusion. The first time I heard “Wherever, Whenever” I had to go look the lyrics up on the internet to make sure what I heard was what I thought it was.
This line,in particular:
“My breasts are small and humble, so you don’t confuse them with mountains”
IDBB